Are Humans Resources? LO15727

Frank Billot (fbillot@avignon.pacwan.net)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:52:09 +0000

Replying to LO15705 --

Doc wrote

>I'm wondering whether the continuing "objectification" of people as a
>means of production (resource or capital) is antithetical to a learning
>organization? It seems to me that by objectifying people, water, animals,
>air, etc., as exchange media continues to exacerbate rather than remedy
>many of the problems people identify on this list.

Very much so Doc. imo objectivation and hypostasying of people (and
things) are in a feedback loop. System thinking seems to me linked to
viewing the complexity dimension of people, ie. not reduced to being one
characteristic, but interacting with, producing and produced by their
environment.

I hold objectivation as a widely spread pattern of thougt, from which
learning can hardly derive. When viewing the nature of people as solid as
concrete, what room is left for evolution, communication, care,
connection...?

just my two centimes

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